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The Book of the Diner is well worth preserving. I only wish it had reached a broader audience when it might have mattered more. That is a testament to the blindness of our culture. If there is a future to look back from, one difficult question historians will have to ask is how we let this happen, when so many saw it coming. This site has certainly aggregated enough information and critical thinking to prove that.[/b]

"This is to knowledge that your inquiry has been received, and placed into a little-tended queue. While your inquiry may be important to you, our profitability depends upon minimal human intervention, so you're pretty much on your own, Because even if we believed in tech support, we're not about to spend real money to provide it. Our trust and safety team (See what we did there; pretty funny, don't you think?) will get around to you in the fullness of time, or as soon as we can get a temp trained.

"Meanwhile, if your personal safety is at risk, you're very much on your own. This is, after all, America.

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Sorry you are going through this. Wish I had something to offer besides snark.

My "avatar" graphic is Japanese calligraphy (shodō) forming the word shoshin, meaning "beginner's mind". -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin -- It is with shoshin that I am now and always "meeting my breath" for the first time. Try it!

I suspect that although the fake site mirrors all of your site, it has some extra stuff (maybe ads) that puts malware onto clients' computers, or maybe extra pages that are porn.

Are you sure your site hasn't had something added to it? If a common page on the site has the line:<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.anotherdomain.com/index.html">in the <head> section near the top, then that will redirect your clients to the fake website.

To look for this, imagine you are a client and go to the normal entry page.Then in Firefox: Tools > Web Developer > Page source will show you the HTML source of the page.Other browsers might differ in the details.If OK, go to the next normal page after that, and repeat.

It sounds like there is a problem with the meet-up package that is being exploited. I recommend dropping it and using something else, and starting again with a new domain name.

Someone has reported your IP address for spam/porn/malware. You can find out more at http://mxtoolbox.com . Your ISP should help you clear your name, or give you a new IP address.

Don't waste time trying to find out who did it - they will have covered their tracks, and in any case are probably in Bangladesh or Ukraine or somewhere.

I suspect that although the fake site mirrors all of your site, it has some extra stuff (maybe ads) that puts malware onto clients' computers, or maybe extra pages that are porn.

Are you sure your site hasn't had something added to it? If a common page on the site has the line:<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://www.anotherdomain.com/index.html">in the <head> section near the top, then that will redirect your clients to the fake website.

To look for this, imagine you are a client and go to the normal entry page.Then in Firefox: Tools > Web Developer > Page source will show you the HTML source of the page.Other browsers might differ in the details.If OK, go to the next normal page after that, and repeat.

It sounds like there is a problem with the meet-up package that is being exploited. I recommend dropping it and using something else, and starting again with a new domain name.

Someone has reported your IP address for spam/porn/malware. You can find out more at http://mxtoolbox.com . Your ISP should help you clear your name, or give you a new IP address.

Don't waste time trying to find out who did it - they will have covered their tracks, and in any case are probably in Bangladesh or Ukraine or somewhere.

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Someone has reported your IP address for spam/porn/malware. You can find out more at http://mxtoolbox.com . Your ISP should help you clear your name, or give you a new IP address.

I only use public wifi at libraries or cafes, as I don't have internet service at home. I checked with friends in various locations with various ISPs, and they all got the same message:

Error 1006 Ray ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXAccess deniedWhat happened?

The owner of this website (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.net) has banned your IP address

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Could all or most IP addresses be on the ban list?

I'm so incompetent "under the hood" with computers that I honestly don't know how to perform the procedure you generously provided instructions for:

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To look for this, imagine you are a client and go to the normal entry page.Then in Firefox: Tools > Web Developer > Page source will show you the HTML source of the page.Other browsers might differ in the details.If OK, go to the next normal page after that, and repeat.

I'm using Firefox, actually, but I don't even know how to find Tools... I think was maybe once on one those "bars" at the top of my computer screen, but I'm not even sure about that! I'm smart at other things, just not with computers! I'm a dunce with computers!

My "avatar" graphic is Japanese calligraphy (shodō) forming the word shoshin, meaning "beginner's mind". -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin -- It is with shoshin that I am now and always "meeting my breath" for the first time. Try it!

Someone has reported your IP address for spam/porn/malware. You can find out more at http://mxtoolbox.com . Your ISP should help you clear your name, or give you a new IP address.

I only use public wifi at libraries or cafes, as I don't have internet service at home. I checked with friends in various locations with various ISPs, and they all got the same message:

Error 1006 Ray ID: XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXAccess deniedWhat happened?

The owner of this website (xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.net) has banned your IP address

---- end quote -----

Could all or most IP addresses be on the ban list?

Most public wifi at libraries and cafes could easily be on the ban list. Since they are open for anyone to access, they can easily be abused by spammers and thus get put on ban lists. Sounds like you might be SOOL.

Most public wifi at libraries and cafes could easily be on the ban list. Since they are open for anyone to access, they can easily be abused by spammers and thus get put on ban lists. Sounds like you might be SOOL.

Not so much.

Actually, the only web site I know of which I'm not able to access as a result of banning is the one which has been illegitimately mirroring my group's Meetup web site.

My "avatar" graphic is Japanese calligraphy (shodō) forming the word shoshin, meaning "beginner's mind". -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin -- It is with shoshin that I am now and always "meeting my breath" for the first time. Try it!

I've had a look at meetup.com and it looks like you pay them to host everything and provide all the software. So it is them that have been hacked, and not you. And it's their site (which includes your site) that has been mirrored and not you specifically.

If that is correct then there is not much you can do about it - either wait for them to fix it, or start over with someone else.

You probably don't want to go on with what I said before, but in case you do:To get your Menu Bar back, right-click on a blank area of Firefox's header, above the page display area, then left-click on Menu Bar from the drop-down list. Then you will see Tools.

Tools > Web Developer > Page Source will open a new window (with its own Menu Bar) with the HTML source for the page. Edit > Find should open a dialog box, type in http-equiv and examine the matching lines for REFRESH and url=http://somewhere-elseThis would explain how traffic gets diverted to the mirrored web site.

My "avatar" graphic is Japanese calligraphy (shodō) forming the word shoshin, meaning "beginner's mind". -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin -- It is with shoshin that I am now and always "meeting my breath" for the first time. Try it!

"This is to knowledge that your inquiry has been received, and placed into a little-tended queue. While your inquiry may be important to you, our profitability depends upon minimal human intervention, so you're pretty much on your own, Because even if we believed in tech support, we're not about to spend real money to provide it. Our trust and safety team (See what we did there; pretty funny, don't you think?) will get around to you in the fullness of time, or as soon as we can get a temp trained.

"Meanwhile, if your personal safety is at risk, you're very much on your own. This is, after all, America.

"And if our lack of concern about your issue is not evident enough, feel free to visit our help Center, where you can read a list of FAQs which have nothing to do with your issue.

"Thanks for contacting us, and fuck you."

***

Sorry you are going through this. Wish I had something to offer besides snark.

My "avatar" graphic is Japanese calligraphy (shodō) forming the word shoshin, meaning "beginner's mind". -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshin -- It is with shoshin that I am now and always "meeting my breath" for the first time. Try it!